echinus
noun
any sea urchin of the genus Echinus.
echini
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pluralof echinus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I don't think you come behind him of whose exquisite Skill the Satyrist says, Ostrea callebat primo deprendere morsu, Et semel aspecti dicebat littus echini.
From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
Superb specimens were secured,—large boulders crowded with colossal shells and perfectly preserved echini.
From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz
Of the echinodermes, remarkable for their coating of spines, asteri, sea-stars, pantacrinae, comatules, asterophons, echini, holothuri, etc., represented individually a complete collection of this group.
From Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
His chief work was the description of the invertebrate fossils of New York—in which he dealt with the graptolites, brachiopods, mollusca, trilobites, echini and crinoids of the Palaeozoic formations.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
But, if pearls and bright shells be rarely found there, surely waifs, better than echini and sting-rays, are to be gathered on the “shores of long ago.”
From Sword and Gown A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence
